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- in Brotherfield 1874 - 1884
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Brotherfield, SD
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New Home, ND
- Location and Plat Map
Shafter, CA
- 1953 Duerksen Reunion
- "Duerksen Book"

Mennonite Brethren
- Origin of Brotherfield MB
Seventh-day Adventist
- Origin of Brotherfield SDA
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. Genealogy of the Brotherfield Russian Mennonite Immigrants
near Parker, South Dakota (1874 to 1884) then New Home, North Dakota,
and their descendants in the Shafter Adventist German Church (1915 to 1937).
Daniel Flyger of Freeman, SD reports the location of two Hutchinson County SDA cemeteries: Reiswig Seventh-day Adventist Cemetery and the Suelzle Seventh-day Adventist Cemetery. It is also reported that these folk left for North Dakota about the same time the Brotherfield Adentists did, 1897.
Family History Book by Ernest Edward Schmidt (1916 - 2001) GRANDMA #133942 whose family has connection to the Brotherfield Guenthers. Download the Schmidt Family History
Another Guenther Family Photo from those found during preparations for an estate sale in Lodi, CA.
From the Aul Collection of Guenther Family Photos.

Family Description Pages (from Garth) added to pages for these Brotherfield Families: Jacob and Helena Unruh Loewen | Heinrich and Maria Guenther Loewen | Freidrich and Aganetha Pankratz Strauss | Friedrich and Agnetha Loewn Strauss | Jacob and Marie Klassen Loewen | Franz and Eva Warkentin Guenther

Excerpt from Huebert's Hierschau (currently available at Mennonlink Books and Music)

Geneology pages for
Anna Unruh & Kornleius Loewen
and
Maria Loewen and Kornelius Unruh